Lucky Amiwero, President of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), and the Managing Director, Eyis Resources Limited
The Federal Government has been urged to right away step up its reforms technique on import and export processes to assist reverse the present poor rating by Trading Across Borders (TAB).
TAB, in its newest rankings, put Nigeria at 183rd place out of the 190 nations it rated on Ease of Doing Business (EODB).
In the rating, Nigeria took the final place, whereas Mali, 85th place, was rated first among the many 17 West African nations thought-about within the report.
President, National Council of Managing Directors of Customs Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), Lucky Amiwero, in a letter to the Presidency, dated June 10, 2018, mentioned Nigeria’s poor rating on ease of doing enterprise has dropped at the fore the necessity to urgently institute reforms to deal with the challenges on import, export and transit regulatory procedures.
Amiwero, who can be the Managing Director, Eyis Resources, mentioned Nigeria’s import, export, regulatory and transit procedures are encumbered with prolonged, cumbersome procedures.
This, he mentioned, is related to pointless delays, excessive transaction value and enhance of cargo dwell time, which makes our port the most costly within the globe based mostly on verifiable data.
In the letter obtained by The Guardian, he mentioned the reform needs to be focused at implementing an built-in set insurance policies and procedures that's globally accepted, which might guarantee efficient commerce facilitation by the discount of transaction value, cargo dwell time and guarantee security and safety of the processes.
“The poor score of Nigeria may be seen from the recognized challenges related to the Import-Export, regulatory and transit procedures that's encumbered with prolonged and cumbersome process, which resulted to our current rating of 183 from 190 nations.
“There is the urgent need to constitute a committee of trade procedure Experts, reform specialist and professional, as Task force to address the challenges urgently,” he acknowledged.
Amiwero additional really useful that the Federal Government ought to look into the problems of collapsed scanners, re-evaluate them to know the replace and replace the scanners for straightforward cargo examination.
He harped on the strict implementation and enforcement of the chief order within the seaport as stipulated within the Port Related offences, (Amendment) Act 61 of 1999.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Hadiza Bala Usman had lately threatened to hunt the intervention of the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on the non-compliance by some government businesses to the presidential order on Ease of Doing Business on the nation’s seaports.
Usman’s response is coming within the wake of complaints by some stakeholders that the extent of compliance to the presidential order by some government businesses, one 12 months after the order was issued has left a lot to be desired.
She mentioned the way in which some government brokers float the order has restricted its optimistic impression and the Federal Government.
While assuring that the Authority would proceed to fulfil its personal a part of the order she lamented that the organization has the limitation of compelling different businesses to do what they're presupposed to do below the presidential directives.